Rachel will make her German operatic debut giving the European Premier of Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied with Amici Arts in Berlin, Germany. Glory Denied follows the harrowing story of Jim and Alyce Thompson as they deal with the fallout from his capture and imprisonment during the Vietnam war. Rachel will portray Young Alyce, the figure that Jim remembers from their first years together. Glory Denied is quickly establishing itself as one of the most important contemporary American operas, and Amici Arts is thrilled to be able to bring it to a European audience.

Rachel will make her German operatic debut giving the European Premier of Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied with Amici Arts in Berlin, Germany. Glory Denied follows the harrowing story of Jim and Alyce Thompson as they deal with the fallout from his capture and imprisonment during the Vietnam war. Rachel will portray Young Alyce, the figure that Jim remembers from their first years together. Glory Denied is quickly establishing itself as one of the most important contemporary American operas, and Amici Arts is thrilled to be able to bring it to a European audience.

Rachel will be joined by pianist Hsin-Chiao Liao to perform a solo vocal recital on the "Le Petit Salon de Musique" chamber music series in Stony Brook, Long Island. Stay tuned for info on the program!

Rachel is joined by baritone Matthew Patrick Morris and pianist Ryan McCullough to perform an American-themed recital featuring solo and duet music that explores the roots and diversity of American music. They will present music from famed American-born composers Ives, Foster, Hopkinson, Burleigh, Beach, Gershwin, and Rodgers, as well as immigrant composers Rachmaninoff, Chen Yi, Korngold, Weil,l and Eisler. They will also feature duets by Rossini and Mozart, both of whom provided a springboard for the thriving American Opera repertoire that exists today.

Rachel is joined by baritone Matthew Patrick Morris and pianist Ryan McCullough to perform an American-themed recital featuring solo and duet music that explores the roots and diversity of American music. They will present music from famed American-born composers Ives, Foster, Hopkinson, Burleigh, Beach, Gershwin, and Rodgers, as well as immigrant composers Rachmaninoff, Chen Yi, Korngold, Weil,l and Eisler. They will also feature duets by Rossini and Mozart, both of whom provided a springboard for the thriving American Opera repertoire that exists today.

Rachel is joined by baritone Matthew Patrick Morris and pianist Ryan McCullough to perform an American-themed recital featuring solo and duet music that explores the roots and diversity of American music. They will present music from famed American-born composers Ives, Foster, Hopkinson, Burleigh, Beach, Gershwin, and Rodgers, as well as immigrant composers Rachmaninoff, Chen Yi, Korngold, Weil,l and Eisler. They will also feature duets by Rossini and Mozart, both of whom provided a springboard for the thriving American Opera repertoire that exists today.

Rachel is joined by baritone Matthew Patrick Morris and pianist Ryan McCullough to perform an American-themed recital featuring solo and duet music that explores the roots and diversity of American music. They will present music from famed American-born composers Ives, Foster, Hopkinson, Burleigh, Beach, Gershwin, and Rodgers, as well as immigrant composers Rachmaninoff, Chen Yi, Korngold, Weil,l and Eisler. They will also feature duets by Rossini and Mozart, both of whom provided a springboard for the thriving American Opera repertoire that exists today.

Rachel is joined by baritone Matthew Patrick Morris and pianist Ryan McCullough to perform an American-themed recital featuring solo and duet music that explores the roots and diversity of American music. They will present music from famed American-born composers Ives, Foster, Hopkinson, Burleigh, Beach, Gershwin, and Rodgers, as well as immigrant composers Rachmaninoff, Chen Yi, Korngold, Weil,l and Eisler. They will also feature duets by Rossini and Mozart, both of whom provided a springboard for the thriving American Opera repertoire that exists today.

Rachel is joined by baritone Matthew Patrick Morris and pianist Ryan McCullough to perform an American-themed recital featuring solo and duet music that explores the roots and diversity of American music. They will present music from famed American-born composers Ives, Foster, Hopkinson, Burleigh, Beach, Gershwin, and Rodgers, as well as immigrant composers Rachmaninoff, Chen Yi, Korngold, Weil,l and Eisler. They will also feature duets by Rossini and Mozart, both of whom provided a springboard for the thriving American Opera repertoire that exists today.

Rachel is joined by baritone Matthew Patrick Morris and pianist Ryan McCullough to perform an American-themed recital featuring solo and duet music that explores the roots and diversity of American music. They will present music from famed American-born composers Ives, Foster, Hopkinson, Burleigh, Beach, Gershwin, and Rodgers, as well as immigrant composers Rachmaninoff, Chen Yi, Korngold, Weil,l and Eisler. They will also feature duets by Rossini and Mozart, both of whom provided a springboard for the thriving American Opera repertoire that exists today.

Rachel will be joined by baritone Matthew Patrick Morris and pianist Ryan McCullough for a recital tour of China. They will perform an American-themed recital including solo and duo music by Ives, Chen Yi, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Mozart and Rossini. See below for info on each concert.

Rachel joins her new colleagues at Ithaca College to honor Leonard Bernstein's Centenary with an evening of his vocal music. Come hear the classics like "Maria" from West Side Story, and some lesser-known pieces like his "Two Love Songs."

Rachel appears in concert for the first time at Ithaca College as part of the After Dinner Mint Faculty Showcase. She'll be performing excerpts from Pauline Viardot's arrangements of Chopin Mazurkas along side colleagues Mary Holzhauer and Alison Wahl.

Rachel will be joined by pianist Hsin-Chiao Liao to perform at the 55th National Association of Teachers of Singing National Conference in Las Vegas. Rachel will be performing as part of her 2016 NATS Artist Award win and will be joined for a brief set by NATS Musical Theater Competition winner, Missy Wise. Stay tuned for info about the program!

Rachel makes her Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium debut singing Mark Hayes' energetic Spirit Suite II. The concert is presented by Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) and will also feature bass-baritone John Robert Green and conductors Kevin McBeth and Andy Waggoner.

Artists for Social Justice, founded and directed by Rachel, puts on a third "Arts in Conversation" event, this time focused on LGBTQ+ issues. Rachel will be joined by local artists of many different disciplines including video, spoken word, dance and music. Join us to consider the innumerable ways that the LGBTQ+ community contributes to the arts.

Rachel will give the world premier of four songs for soprano and string quartet by Emerson String Quartet violinist Eugene Drucker on this New Music for Strings Festival concert at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall.

Rachel returns to Opera Parallèle following her critically-acclaimed starring role in Les mamelles de Tirésias with the company in 2014. She will perform Lise in Philip Glass's lesser known Les enfants terribles.

Rachel returns to Opera Parallèle following her critically-acclaimed starring role in Les mamelles de Tirésias with the company in 2014. She will perform Lise in Philip Glass's lesser known Les enfants terribles.

Rachel returns to Opera Parallèle following her critically-acclaimed starring role in Les mamelles de Tirésias with the company in 2014. She will perform Lise in Philip Glass's lesser known Les enfants terribles.

Rachel joins pianists Jonathan Korth and Bichuan Li in presenting an evening of traditional and contemporary art song and solo piano repertoire. Rachel and Jonathan will perform some favorite Rachmaninoff hits, some British gems by Quilter, Gurney and Finzi and a set of Scandinavian songs by Grieg, Rangström and Sibelius. Also on the program will be some unusual contemporary piano music by Moritz Eggert, Arvo Pärt, Annie Gosfield and Thomas Osborne, as well as Schubert's Impromptu No. 3.

Rachel makes a guest appearance on a recital of contemporary piano music by Jonathan Korth. Many of the pieces will involve the extended use of the piano - playing inside on the strings, outside on the body and frame, and with various 'props.' The recital will feature music by Takuma Itoh, Thomas Osborne, Donald Womack and Moritz Eggert, and Rachel will join Jonathan to perform George Crumb's Apparition.

Rachel and long-time collaborator, pianist Jonathan Korth return to the Big Island of Hawai'i to perform a solo recital on the Hawai'i Concert Society series in Hilo. They will be joined by clarinetist Jim Moffit and will perform works such as Schubert's "The Shepherd on the Rock."

Hawai'i favorites, soprano Rachel Schutz and pianist Jonathan Korth, joined by clarinetist-extraordinaire Jim Moffit, present an evening of traditional and unusual art song and chamber music from around the world. They begin with Schubert's iconic "The Shepherd on the Rock," a piece that essentially started the genre of chamber music with voice. They'll also introduce Hawai'i audiences to some jazzy Jack Gottlieb trios, as well as give a preview to the world premier of Jeff Myer's "The Hula Manō" set to Hawaiian text. Paired with these trio pieces will be some hyper-romantic songs of Sergei Rachmaninoff, some lesser-known Scandinavian art songs by Grieg, Rangström and Sibelius, and finally Benjamin Britten's epic "Les Illuminations."

Rachel joins award-winning harpist Megan Bledsoe Ward and her Pacific Harp Project for an evening of chamber music for voice, harp and piano, accompanied by pianist Susan Reed. The trio will perform lesser-known works by 19th century composers Tournier, Caplet, and Hensel, as well as exciting contemporary repertoire including a piece specifically written for Rachel, "Nottamun Town," by Peter Winkler.

Hawaii favorites, soprano Rachel Schutz and pianist Jonathan Korth, present an evening of traditional and unusual art song from around the world. In the first half of this diverse program, the two will take a tour around Europe. You'll hear them undertake masterpieces by Schubert, Schumann and Strauss and a few hyper-romantic songs of Sergei Rachmaninoff, while also exploring the some lesser-known Scandinavian art songs by Grieg, Rangström and Sibelius. For the second half, they turn their attention to popular and contemporary art music of the United States. George Crumb's iconic Apparition, for amplified piano and voice, will be paired with a selection of favorite Gershwin songs from his American Song Book.

Rachel appears as a special guest artist with the University of Hawai'i Wind Ensemble and maestro Jeffrey Boeckman to perform Louis Andriessen's M is for Man, Music, Mozart. This under-performed and unusual piece is not to be missed!